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Coyota in the Kitchen

A Memoir of New and Old Mexico
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This book of stories and recipes introduces two eccentric families that would never have eaten together, let alone exchanged recipes, but for the improbable marriage of the author's parents: a nuevomexicano from Taos and a painter who came from Texas to New Mexico to study art. Recalling the good and the terrible cooks in her family, Anita Rodriguez also shares the complications of navigating a safe path among contradictory cultural perspectives. She takes us from the mountain villages of New Mexico in the 1940s to sipping mint juleps on the porch of a mansion in the South, and also on a prolonged pilgrimage to Mexico and back again to New Mexico. Accompanied by Rodriguez's vibrant paintings-including scenes of people eating on fiesta nights and plastering an adobe church-Coyota in the Kitchen shows how food reflects the complicated family histories that shape our lives.
Anita Rodriguez is an award-winning painter who is also widely known as an enjarradora, or plasterer and finisher of adobe buildings. She lives in Taos, New Mexico, USA.
A delicious feast of rich storytelling, fantastic myths, remarkable multicultural family sagas, and culinary dysfunction in bizarre yet beautiful kitchens across the Southwest and Mexico. --John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War The blending of cultures is everywhere apparent in the hybrid volume. . . . Sharply observed, often hilarious.--HipLatina This multi-artist is a self-declared 'packrat, ' not only of stories but also of images, and, I add, recipes. She has picked through her stash and combined the findings into one long, interesting and tasty story.--Story Circle Book Reviews
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